Western tech firms bow to Russian demands for source code reviews

Echelon, a Moscow-based technology testing company, is one of several independent FSB-accredited testing centres that Western companies can hire to help obtain FSB approval for their products.

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WESTERN technology companies, including Cisco, IBM and SAP, are acceding to demands by Moscow for access to closely guarded product security secrets, at a time when Russia has been accused of a growing number of cyberattacks on the West, a Reuters investigation has found.